By the end of 2016, 2.8 Billion people were using social media. 83 percent of Americans have a social media account with 22 percent of Americans using social networking sites several times per day. It really is a “Social Habit”. Facebook has 1.79 billion users, IM has reached 100 million, Instagram 400 million, Twitter 320 million and YouTube over 1 billion users.

Facebook is forever evolving. Ten years ago, there was no Newsfeed, everything was publicly visible on your friends’ walls, and there were only 12 million accounts. Today, Facebook has 1.79 billion monthly users. A majority of Americans now say they get news via social media.

As technology improves our lives, it is also increasingly blurs the line between truth and falsehood. Today, we live in a world of Photoshop, CGI, and AI-powered beautifying selfie apps… this has opened up a staggering floodgate of information that includes rumors, misinformation, and outright lies.

Today everything is presented as LIVE – to be trusted as reality…but is it really the truth? How many young people today are patterning their lives after something that appears to be real, but in fact it’s fiction. At this year’s camp, we will help young people distinguish between false reality and the authentic. Four individuals, four stories…

John 10:10 (MSG) …He came so we can have real and eternal life, more and better life than we have ever dreamed of.” We want young people to understand the source of authentic and real truth!

Join us July 17-21 at beautiful Bear Trap Ranch in the mountains of Colorado for FMIN’s 19th year of Youth Camp. Our team will continue the vision of training and developing young people how to LIVE Original and Authentic!

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Geary and Juli Perry are the Youth Directors for Faith Ministries International Network and help pastor at FM Denver in Colorado, USA. Geary and Juli have nine children and twelve grandchildren.